[nycbug-talk] Request for Review, Summary of FreeBSD src fetching problems

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Thu Feb 14 21:17:41 EST 2013


On 14 February 2013 21:13, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us> wrote:
> On 2/14/2013 6:28 PM, Marc Spitzer wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I'm going to throw something out here, and feel free to disagree
>>     with me.
>>
>>     Easy access to source, even if we grant that it is "silly in 2013"
>>     as has been stated before, is no excuse for no easy access to source.
>>
>>
>> How is source access not easy?  just install svn and you have it.  Is
>> there a hard step I am missing?
>>
>
> What's the undue hardship of having a tool in base that can do this? As far
> as I understand it, the issue here boils down to:
> 1. I have FreeBSD.
> 2. I want sources.
> 3. I do not want to/cannot run svn.
> How can I get sources?

freebsd-update ?


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Eitan Adler



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